In over 40 analyst reports released since Facebook's May 2012 IPO, each report has urged investors to buy despite the stock's drops, Aaron Lucchetti reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.

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... I ... well at all it's the continuing to ... pound on the buy ratings on Facebook that the stock had been right to buy up close to six percent ... while commit Digits I'm Simon Constable to talk about this so the mantra of buy buy buy buy and we chat deal The will Street gentle ... thanks for joining us from ... Facebook because the eight day an IPO that didn't do very well last year but still has its offering price doing a little bad about it so far this year but will want one day in this mantra of buy buy buy a toss about it ... well the analysts on Facebook found were ... positive almost uniformly among the bigger banks that the stock went from thirty down to about eighteen or nineteen ... and then bounce back into twenty so ... it's another example of why if you do with Wall Street research most likely you wanna look beyond the rating and see what the trends like the Lord estimates ... on the revenues last year ... and some of the concerns of the analyst raised now ... these big banks that have these ... By racing's which you think would mean by this talk of the other the same banks that took of this company public ... will we let that we look to all the underwriters and dad were thirty three of them and at the top three were the ones that that most closely indeed generated these fees for brands ... I'm and that they will buy right and they all have By Racing on the thirty three ... how we look at all the reports that come out from analysts every stock that is it the ended the year and that number was around sixty percent ... of our ports ... now what one other things that is interesting reason but some banks have found a recession on the summoning of banking to promise that a company's public but there was some asset management companies out what they doing the same thing as the recent analysts ... not exactly aam they started and in various ways they are two big allocations of ... the IPL they did the three largest underwriters ... have but two of the three sold off the beach on and Morris Allen the other ... lead underwriters ... sold some nice to see it too so ... that these are big Sur complex organizations they they do a lot of different things sometimes are advising investors to buy or sell ... other times to meet all fines are making decisions on whether to buy or sell they do that separately but it does create some some tricky ... aam optics if you well ... have you been moving into directors the sum of the metal stakes because what we've seen still the blast here are a lot a lot of money small invest the money will in the Stock Market When favourite the bomb market ... does that does this all play into that that feeling that small investors calm trust Wall Street ... it's a very good point in Facebook was a tough tough deal for them on the stock market because ... I'm you know you can index the market you can certify the market and looked ahead and forget it and come back here to ... if you're a stock that if you look of her for companies that are in and make more money than the averages ... this was a big opportunity missed it this is a company that that was large fast growing ... on big expectations because of the way it was priced in the way came out ... it turned out to be in the big loser for a lot of dust and they will be too subtle to be a one-year chop them but one of the things that when when ... I'm public at ... thirty ... eight am and spiked up to ... and the four C's and if you were unfortunate enough to find them ... it's witty it's worthy sleep diet ... right now I mean it to the banks and other associates have a long-term horizon in five years this may be won or who knows has a lot of things that happen ... have to make a little sentimental isn't Ametek Reddy said all I puts it could go either way ... but in a one year time horizon or about seven months Verizon hasn't been a great starlets have a nice bounce back ... today for various technical reasons the tax loss selling descended from last year for instance ... but in terms of ... why you'd want to be good and this company ... the whole IPO market is she someone for a large mature company Facebook that didn't ... even want to go public is much is same companies' ten or fifteen years ago ... a lot of prior grounds investors had been made ... a lot of people who wanna be in the stock already had ... so it ... is people look back on this company and why it went public down at a price that may in ... fact looks too high ... a lot of people say well a lot of demand was was Ardi filled people got there got their shares before hand and so there were as many buyers left to drive the stock after the IPO ... now ... back in the the tech bubble to manhandled in the wake of that we have to prosecute assemble a QB was privately sending emails and you know that some OS for private sending emails I'm oh what a while but this saying that don't what's top end and then putting a buy rating on ... premises and quite fast but you do have the same company so that dumping start you know in asset management side when I say oh that's ... that that's ... thrown out the window to call the analysts signed by that of an anti thing regulators will look at that was the they can say well let's just the way to the will Street as a real question I think the the regulators will wanna make sure that those decisions were made independently ... the two regulators look at is is ... on them the funds buy a lot of shares because it's a banking client ... is a sign that happened over Morgan Stanley had big positions ... and held onto lot of fun so there are believers in the Stock both in the banking side and on the five most consistent identity team as those in my businesses and ... this is a thank you very much to Vishay owns the Wall Street John you can read mall man story but ... there until an ad on this that something has to come I'm Simon Qassam on that's it that's Tages for now ...